A Texas judge has ordered a 13-year-old girl to be detained as she awaits trial in the stabbing death of a 14-year-old girl.

The Star-Telegram reports that State District Judge Timothy Menikos decided to hold the teen in custody at the Tarrant County juvenile court Thursday.

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Fort Worth Police spokesman Bradley Perez said the juvenile suspect was arrested at her house Wednesday. He said a verbal altercation early Tuesday morning at a Fort Worth apartment complex led to the death of 14-year-old Nylah Lightfoot.

The Tarrant County medical examiner’s office said Lightfoot was pronounced dead upon arrival at a Fort Worth hospital from stab wounds to the neck and chest.

Lightfoot’s mother, Anntoinette Carter, said the two girls were on-and-off friends.

Carter said the altercation began when the suspect asked to sleep over and she said "no."

The suspect asked Lightfoot to come to her house and get some clothes she had left there. That's when the fight turned physical.

“She whooped you. You should have accepted it,” Carter said, according to Fox 4. “No, you had to go back in the house and get a knife and stab and kill my baby. Now, I'm daughterless. My heart feels like it's been ripped out and stomped on."

The victim had reportedly just completed the eight grade at H.F. Stevens Middle School. Classes ended for the summer on Friday.

“She didn't give me no problems. She was my backbone,” Carter said. “She helped me with everything. For her to do this to her, it's just wrong."

A woman who identified herself as the suspect's mother said "the truth will come out" as she left Thursday's hearing.

Juvenile court attorney Trent Loftin told Fox 4 that because the suspect is 13, she cannot be tried as an adult.

“(But) At the age of 13 years old, you're within the parameters you can definitely be sentenced to prison for a long time,” he explained.